he's played golf before with president clinton. >>> up next tonight, all the many things russians have recorded on their dashboard video cameras and why it is so many russian drivers have them. >>> so, we all woke up last friday morning to the story of the meteor and the damage it did in russia and the numerous videos of the flaming trail across the sky. almost as amazing as the meteor was the huge number of high-quality hd videos from what looked like a fleet of dashboard cameras in vehicles all over russia. then we did some checking, and we discovered these cameras are a big thing among russians, and they see a lot of things. our report tonight from our own longtime moscow veteran, nbc's jim maceda. >> reporter: when that meteor came crashing into siberia last week, the moment was captured for the ages from just about every angle. caught in the act by these, small, inexpensive dashboard cameras, dashcams. and in a country where traffic can be a matter of life and death, few russian drivers leave home without them. "it protects me from the lawless, drunken idiots on the road," says dm